Program

Monday, Sep. 4
Chair: Ronald Taam
09:00 - 09:40		Registration and Coffee Time
09:40 - 10:00		Introduction
10:00 - 11:30	Jogesh Babu	Probability
11:30 - 11:50		Group Photo
11:50 - 13:00		Lunch
Chair: Yen-Ting Lin
13:00 - 14:30	Yen-Chi Chen	Introduction to Statistical Inference
14:30 - 15:00		Break
15:00 - 16:30	I-Ping Tu	Introduction to Support Vector Machine
Tuesday, Sep. 5
Chair: Wei-Hao Wang
09:00 - 10:30	Jogesh Babu	Model Fitting, Bootstrap, and Model Selection
10:30 - 11:00		Break
11:00 - 12:30	Yen-Chi Chen	Regression Analysis and Density Estimation
12:30 - 13:30		Lunch
Chair: Keiichi Umetsu
13:30 - 15:00	George Djorgovski	Astroinformatics and Virtual Observatory in a Broader Context / Data Visualization
15:00 - 15:30		Break
15:30 - 16:30		Meet the lecturers
Wednesday, Sep. 6
Chair: Yen-Chi Chen
08:50 - 10:20	Robert Lupton	Astronomical Image Processing: From pixels to catalogues
10:20 - 10:40		Break
10:40 - 12:10	Anna Scaife	Radio imaging: fundamentals and application
12:10 - 13:10		Lunch
Chair: Sheng-Yuan Liu
13:10 - 14:10		Meet the lecturers
14:20 - 15:20	George Djorgovski	ASIAA colloquium : Big Data Meet Big Black Holes: Quasars in the Time Domain
15:20 - 15:50		Break
15:50 - 16:50	Yen-Chi Chen	Tutorial I: Introduction to R for data analysis
Thursday, Sep. 7
Chair: Bau-Ching Hsieh
09:00 - 10:30	George Djorgovski	Classification Challenges in Time-Domain Astronomy ML-intro \| ML-classification
10:30 - 11:00		Break
11:00 - 12:30	Robert Lupton	Unsolved problems in Astronomical Image Processing
12:30 - 13:30		Lunch
Chair: Yen-Ting Lin
13:30 - 15:00	Boris Leistedt	Hierarchical Bayesian inference I: foundations and astronomical applications
15:00 - 15:30		Break
15:30 - 17:00	Anna Scaife	Machine Learning: Gaussian Process Modelling in Python
Friday, Sep. 8
Chair: Wei-Hao Wang
09:00 - 10:30	Boris Leistedt	Hierarchical Bayesian inference II: parameter inference and connections to machine learning
10:30 - 11:00		Break
11:00 - 12:00	Anna Scaife	Tutorial II: Using Python for data analysis
12:00 - 13:30		Lunch
Chair: Ronald Taam
13:30 - 14:30		Panel Discussion: Future of Astrostatistics